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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 13h

🚨 Vertebrate paleo job alert!!!!

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Coral Morphologic @coralmorphologic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🪸Hi, Friends!🪸 A great way to support CM *and* beautify your home is through the purchase of our photographic prints 📸 Below is a close-up of a Portuguese Man O War 🪼 Browse this print and many more selections @ coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/category/pho...

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huh. It almost like the “there are more men named Mike than women featured in Shark Week” finding from our paper isn’t an isolated thing. </sarcasm>

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Autumn is here, which means cat snuggles, warm fuzzy blankets, and trying to crochet my first sweater. For the second time. The first try was a mess, and I turned it into a cowl.

Orange cat curled up on a blue blanket next to some crocheted work

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Woot! My kids’ band did great! And the rain held off until all bands were done. Bonus image: my oldest kid designed the show shirt this year. They’re a fantastic artist and looking to major in art in college next year.

Meadville Marching Band on the football field

Band show shirt design: grayish hand and arm wearing a black and red band uniform. There is a black and red spider in the index finger. Words are woven into the spider web in the background: Infected 2026 and various song titles

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At the first band show of the season, and my favorite band that isn’t my kids band is up! Only 28 kids (which is actually huge for this school) and they always do the best job!!

Small marching band on a football field with a mountain-themed staircase in the background

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...

A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s been a busy month! Taking kid 1 to visit colleges, learning how to be an associate provost, band season is full swing… Took a much needed art break this evening to keep working on this puffer linocut 🐡

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#SICB Members! The #Education Council of SICB is hosting a #workshop to get your course into gear! Dana Orbach Amanda Chicoli Ph.D. @billryerson.bsky.social & Stephen Ferguson will be featured. Simply sign up at: tinyurl.com/sicbedcouncil1 #academia #professors #scientists #biologists

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Whelp, it’s that time of year again. The time where I have to once again remind people: that the giant shark known as Megalodon is super extinct and has been for several million years. Yes, we know for sure. Yes, the ocean is really big. But our current ecosystem cannot sustain it.

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Parks and Recreation: I'm Dead

Alt: Parks and Recreation: I'm Dead

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Excellent thread summing up this neat paper

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Chaco is a beautiful, culturally important site - like so many of our National Parks sites! - and is in the crosshairs. Info on how to make your voice heard is below.

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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 10/07/2026

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Seriously, it takes about 1 minute. You can spare that. Link below.

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#SICB & all other #academicsociety members If allowed to go into effect, the changes the #OMB is proposing will seriously harm the American #scientific research . www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... read www.aau.edu/newsroom/lea... & comment by 7-13 www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I've been doing sexual harassment and assault research and advocacy work since 2012. If there's one thing people need to understand is that everything, literally everything, is stacked against the victim. Every one who comes forward risks their reputation, identity, safety, and more. 1/2

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/07/2026

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 11 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/R83IO

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

On May 29, the OMB released: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Among many other things, it would Give #political appointees veto power over peer review... comment period closes July 13, 2026. Your voice matters. Comment directly www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... #science #biology

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Curator of Vertebrates

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History currently has openings for three early-career Research Curators in Vertebrate Zoology, one each from the disciplines of ornithology, herpetology and ichthyology. The Department of Vertebrate Zoology seeks candidates with demonstrated expertise in, and a commitment to, collections-based research centered on systematics and evolution of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. This includes the ability to pursue an original approach to systematics and comparative analyses using, for example, morphology, development, and/or molecular data, and showing evidence of broader impacts or applications in evolutionary biology and/or collections-based ecology, as demonstrated by a record of peer-reviewed publications.

Candidates must have demonstrated the ability to establish an externally funded research program and to contribute to the growth and curation of the collections. Research in the Department is supported by the Museum’s shared laboratories, including the Laboratory of Analytic Biology and the Scientific Imaging facility, among others. The Department’s scientific collections are the largest in the world for fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, and the third largest for birds.

These federal positions will be filled at the GS-12 level, with a starting salary of $102,415, and excellent benefits. The positions are permanent and require a one-year probationary period.

The official announcement is posted on USAJOBS, where applications must be submitted.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Please be sure to read the announcement and instructions carefully, as the process of applying via USAJOBS is stringent and differs from applying for an academic position. This website offers helpful advice: https://serc.si.edu/careers/tips-applying-federal-jobs

Please contact the Search Committee Chair, Michael McGowen (mcgowenm@si.edu) or the Department Chair, Helen James (jamesh@si.edu) with any questions.

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out at@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...

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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Folks interested in sharks will want to tune to the New England Aquarium's Lowell lecture series. Tonight's speaker is @ingridhyrycena.bsky.social, talking about #shark and #ray #conservation in #Brazil. Watch the live stream, or If you're in Boston, attend. support.neaq.org/site/Calenda...

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New England Aquarium

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Completed a new to me art form - Kinusaiga! I found a photo of a whale shark and based the pattern on that. This is done insulation foam with fabric from my stash. No sewing- just tucking the edges into grooves I cut into the foam.

Art piece of a whale shark swimming, which looks like a mosaic made of fabric

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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We're hiring! 🐟 Assistant Curator of Ichthyology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 Apply via @ufl.edu: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54... 🔸 About the Dept. of Natural History, Florida Museum: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/

Group of people in a studio setting observing a clear container with an object inside, some taking photos with phones.

Man in blue shirt holding a large fish and a tray of smaller fish, with a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission vehicle behind him.

Two women working with animal specimens in a storage room with metal shelving and a forklift.

Group of people looking at small fish and amphibians in a water tank during an outdoor educational event.

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Nope, nothing to see here. <stuffs hands in pockets, whistles as she leaves>

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Found this nugget of joy at a local antique/thrift store. The label says “creepy fish taxidermy”. It did not come home with me, only because I couldn’t figure out what I would do with it or to whom I would gift it.

Fish head with an open mouth and flared gills, mounted to a plaque that says “Creepy fish taxidermy”

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I got to see a harpy eagle in real life today! She was so big!!

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My cheeks hurt from smiling with joy! The Masters of the Universe movie was just the best for this Gen X kid who has MotU stuff all over her office. So many deep cuts!

Lisa wearing a Skeletor tshirt next to a painting of HeMan

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Everything in the world is terrible, but let me interrupt your doom scrolling to introduce you to my new yard octopus, who will greet me everyday when I come up the driveway after work. 🐙

Raised garden in front of a grassy hill. Behind the garden wall is a metal octopus statue.

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Today was also commencement at Allegheny. It’s a great feeling when one of the grads excitedly comes up to you after the ceremony because the commencement speaker mentioned tardigrades and they remember learning about them in my course during the first year 💙💛🐊

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I love having a kid who is true to themselves. Junior prom tonight, and the theme is “Masquerade”. They made the nature-themed cat mask, and I put together the boutonniere with flowers from our yard because they wanted forget-me-nots.

Custom grey cat mask with two mushroom horns and pink ash purple wild flowers

Boutonniere made of various purple wild flowers

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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org · 04/05/2026

When most people picture a shark, they might imagine something large, sleek, and unmistakably “sharky.” But the truth is that sharks are wildly diverse, and many species have adaptations so unusual that they can seem almost unreal: go.nhm.org/strange-sharks

Close-up of a megamouth shark specimen, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If you are interested in working with me on a PhD on the effects of killer whale fear on baleen whale ecology, behavior, and evolution... and you would be eligible for the fellowship below... contact me! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

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Kiersten Formoso, PhD(epressed) @formorphology.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hi! I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section. (Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!) badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com

badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Are you passionate about SF, fantasy, and pop culture? Our Managing Editor is looking for original essay pitches: author appreciations, scholarly analysis of all aspects of pop culture, critical and personal essays, think pieces, literary analysis and deep dives into film, television, and fiction

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I made a Bluesky starter pack of shark science and conservation professionals. Many are attending sharks international #SI2026 ! Please follow and share. go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB @sharks-int.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🦈

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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📢 Last call for EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS 📌 Paleobiology is still accepting proposals for special issues. Proposals in all aspects of paleontology are encouraged. 🐭🐌 Submissions on all fossil organism groups and trace fossils are welcome. 🐾

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This week has been a lot. Tonight called for some art time and I decided to plan out some linocut stuff. Hoping the one on the right will be some sort of reduction print, which I’ve never done before.

Sketch of a pajama shy shark and a nurse shark

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is awful. The NSF enables great science and, importantly, support for future scientists and citizens that need to be scientifically literate. It's also not lost on me that my NSF grant was cancelled 1 year ago this past weekend.

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